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- Recklinghausen
- n_blkr
Hello fellow GTPlaneteers,
it's the end of 2020, Christmas is over, New Year's Eve is approaqching. Time to talk about the past 12 months, eh?
Since there already is a thread where you can talk about how your day has been, I thought of maybe starting a thread where you can reminisce about the past year.
Talk about things that stood out (good or bad), special moments, random stuff or other noteworthy things that happened in this already historical (in a bad way of course). Simply let it all out if you like to!
So, I guess I'll start then...
...after a fairly "alcoholic" New Year's Eve party, my 2020 was about to take quite a rollercoaster ride. Lots of highs, lots of lows. And one deep low. But yeah, more on that later.
So I was going into the new year with my final six months of apprenticeship coming up. Prepping for my finals at home after work and school in March has begun early in January. Or at least, it should have. Why? 'Cause I was lazy. And I thouhgt I could do it all with just minor preperation (which I eventually did). But yeah. The first three weeks were pretty uneventful here in Germany. Sure, the "rise" of Covid-19 in other parts of the world was slowly taking over the media in my country, but everything was still "fairly" normal over here then.
At the end of January, me and three mates were discussing a trip we were planning to do. We wanted to go to Lille to watch the soccer match between LOSC Lille and Paris Saint Germain. But, our plans were cut short due to us being too late to order the match tickets. Until one of the other guys joked around, saying "Screw it, let's just go to a FC Barcelona match then." A couple of weeks later we booked our flights, hostel and match tickets. No one would have acutally thought we would actually go. For us four soccer fans, it was kind of a dream come true. And to top it all off, we didn't just go there on Friday, watched the match on Saturday and went straight back home on Sunday morning. We booked everything in a way we could make a long-weekend-trip there. Arrived Friday at noon, went back home on Monday evening. All in all it was an unforgettable trip. I saw a new country, lots of awesome places, had some exceptional food and I saw Messi play on home turf. What more could a young soccer fan want?
In between all that, in early Febuary, I did a short track walk on the Nordschleife. Was it legal? Probably not. But we weren't the only ones, so there's that.
Pretty cool experience. You really notice how steep everything is. Sure, you can play some GT, Assetto Corsa or any other sim, but you never properly know what's going on until you're the one that's on track, either by car (which I also did in July) or by foot. And yes, I immortalized myself on the track too.
Anyway. Moving on, after the trip to Barcelona, Covid hit Germany properly for the for first time. In fact, we could't have timed the trip better. Just a few days after we got back home, Spain went into lockdown.
The schools in Germany closed on March 16th, so preperation for the finals was starting to become more harder. In addition to that (as I stated previously), I didn't do any kind of prepping. But luckily, a week before the finals, it was made public that the finals were pushed back until June.
In the beginning of May I got to know that I wasn't going to be "taken over" after my apprenticeship at the dealership I was working at. And my boss didn't even tell me. I got hold of it through our secretary. I thought "Screw this place" and carried on.
Part one of the finals was in early June, the oral exam to be specific. Passed with a grade of 2, easy stuff. And on the same day, I got my first car. 2009 Opel Astra 1.6. My dad gifted it to me since he got himself a new one.
Two weeks later it was part two of the finals, the written exam. Let me put it short: about 80% of all apprentice barely made it. But hey: we all made it. And just to rub it in, I "took a week off" (
) the day after I wrote the exam. Half a week later we got the results, I showed up one last time at my then current workplace, said my goodbye's, had one final chat with my boss and left it all behind. The next chapter of my life was about to start, but it was set to start in one of the worst ways possible.
Four weeks after I finished my apprenticeship, a dealership near me invited me for a job interview after I applied for a job as a Service Assistant. It went really well, and just one day later I was scheduled to show up at 8 AM for a day of trail work.
In the night from Thursday, July 9th to Friday, July 10th we recieved a phone call in the middle of the night. My mother's fiance died of a heart attack. From that point on, the year started going downhill.
We went to his family 400km away on the same morning, stayed there for a week. Two weeks later, we returned for the funeral. Between all that, I finally had my two days of trail work at the other dealership I mentioned earlier. And even before the second day was over, I signed the contract. 👍
Now, after almost half a year of working there, I couldn't have thought of a better workplace. By far a better place to work at compared to the dealership I did my apprenticeship at. Two guys who did the apprenticeship at the same time as me are also there, which is a bonus point.
And now, with all the Covid stuff, the lockdown and everything, "I made it" through 2020.
So, how has your 2020 been?
it's the end of 2020, Christmas is over, New Year's Eve is approaqching. Time to talk about the past 12 months, eh?
Since there already is a thread where you can talk about how your day has been, I thought of maybe starting a thread where you can reminisce about the past year.
Talk about things that stood out (good or bad), special moments, random stuff or other noteworthy things that happened in this already historical (in a bad way of course). Simply let it all out if you like to!
So, I guess I'll start then...
...after a fairly "alcoholic" New Year's Eve party, my 2020 was about to take quite a rollercoaster ride. Lots of highs, lots of lows. And one deep low. But yeah, more on that later.
So I was going into the new year with my final six months of apprenticeship coming up. Prepping for my finals at home after work and school in March has begun early in January. Or at least, it should have. Why? 'Cause I was lazy. And I thouhgt I could do it all with just minor preperation (which I eventually did). But yeah. The first three weeks were pretty uneventful here in Germany. Sure, the "rise" of Covid-19 in other parts of the world was slowly taking over the media in my country, but everything was still "fairly" normal over here then.
At the end of January, me and three mates were discussing a trip we were planning to do. We wanted to go to Lille to watch the soccer match between LOSC Lille and Paris Saint Germain. But, our plans were cut short due to us being too late to order the match tickets. Until one of the other guys joked around, saying "Screw it, let's just go to a FC Barcelona match then." A couple of weeks later we booked our flights, hostel and match tickets. No one would have acutally thought we would actually go. For us four soccer fans, it was kind of a dream come true. And to top it all off, we didn't just go there on Friday, watched the match on Saturday and went straight back home on Sunday morning. We booked everything in a way we could make a long-weekend-trip there. Arrived Friday at noon, went back home on Monday evening. All in all it was an unforgettable trip. I saw a new country, lots of awesome places, had some exceptional food and I saw Messi play on home turf. What more could a young soccer fan want?
In between all that, in early Febuary, I did a short track walk on the Nordschleife. Was it legal? Probably not. But we weren't the only ones, so there's that.
Pretty cool experience. You really notice how steep everything is. Sure, you can play some GT, Assetto Corsa or any other sim, but you never properly know what's going on until you're the one that's on track, either by car (which I also did in July) or by foot. And yes, I immortalized myself on the track too.
Anyway. Moving on, after the trip to Barcelona, Covid hit Germany properly for the for first time. In fact, we could't have timed the trip better. Just a few days after we got back home, Spain went into lockdown.
The schools in Germany closed on March 16th, so preperation for the finals was starting to become more harder. In addition to that (as I stated previously), I didn't do any kind of prepping. But luckily, a week before the finals, it was made public that the finals were pushed back until June.
In the beginning of May I got to know that I wasn't going to be "taken over" after my apprenticeship at the dealership I was working at. And my boss didn't even tell me. I got hold of it through our secretary. I thought "Screw this place" and carried on.
Part one of the finals was in early June, the oral exam to be specific. Passed with a grade of 2, easy stuff. And on the same day, I got my first car. 2009 Opel Astra 1.6. My dad gifted it to me since he got himself a new one.
Two weeks later it was part two of the finals, the written exam. Let me put it short: about 80% of all apprentice barely made it. But hey: we all made it. And just to rub it in, I "took a week off" (
Four weeks after I finished my apprenticeship, a dealership near me invited me for a job interview after I applied for a job as a Service Assistant. It went really well, and just one day later I was scheduled to show up at 8 AM for a day of trail work.
In the night from Thursday, July 9th to Friday, July 10th we recieved a phone call in the middle of the night. My mother's fiance died of a heart attack. From that point on, the year started going downhill.
We went to his family 400km away on the same morning, stayed there for a week. Two weeks later, we returned for the funeral. Between all that, I finally had my two days of trail work at the other dealership I mentioned earlier. And even before the second day was over, I signed the contract. 👍
Now, after almost half a year of working there, I couldn't have thought of a better workplace. By far a better place to work at compared to the dealership I did my apprenticeship at. Two guys who did the apprenticeship at the same time as me are also there, which is a bonus point.
And now, with all the Covid stuff, the lockdown and everything, "I made it" through 2020.
So, how has your 2020 been?